0 the quality of being godly (= obeying and respecting God):
Promoting godliness in a secular age is no longer the only challenge for some of Canada's clergy.
It's his ambition rather than his godliness that causes him to put his family low down on his list of priorities..
If cleanliness is next to Godliness, then most teenagers are atheists.
Like ' honour ' or ' godliness ' for earlier periods, ' politeness ' helps us map the culture broadly conceived.
Reliance on one's word went with recognition of one's honour, virtue, and godliness.
But one needed to be discriminating when assigning value to the uses of godliness.
From these one may expect social improvement and personal, marital, and family prosperity and happiness, along with virtue and godliness.
He has heard rumour that property will be redistributed according to professions of godliness, and thus will be held only through the favour of tyrants.
